The Button List:

Along the left hand side of the Button Properties Tab is a list of all the buttons in the 1CBT project.

The order in which buttons appear in the list does affect the way buttons behave. If you are using the auto-layout feature it will determine the order of the buttons in the layout. If you are Specifying the Size and Position of each of the buttons, the order determines which button is in front or behind when they are displayed. Buttons higher in the list will be displayed in front of buttons that are lower in the list.

Selecting a button from the list will display that button's properties in the Button Properties tab.

The eye icon can be used to selectively hide and show buttons.  It is useful for reducing on-screen clutter when working with projects that show pop-up buttons, and similar transient effects.

Button Name:

Specifies the name of the button.  The button name identifies each button and is displayed in the button list.   Button names are useful for identifying buttons in Action and Animation

Button Type:

Determines how the button behaves when it is clicked.   There are three button styles which users of Windows are familiar with:

• Check Box.  The button toggles between on and off states.


• Push Button.  The button will pop back up when clicked.


• Radio Button.  The button sticks down when clicked, and all the other Radio Buttons pop up.   You can only have one Radio Button checked at a time.

Note:
This only affects the button's behavior - its appearance will not affected.

Button Link:

This is the URL that the browser will be sent to when the button is clicked.

You can specify more than one URL per button.  Multiple URLs should be separated by commas and a space.

Example:
The link: http://www.microsoft.com, http://www.netscape.com will open both the Microsoft and Netscape home pages with a single click.  However, you must specify frames for the URLs to be displayed in, otherwise only the last URL will be displayed in the default frame.

Browsing for Button Links using the button:
You can browse for links using the open dialog.  The link is saved as a relative path so the URL will still function correctly when the applet or flash file is running over the Internet.  The path to the link is saved relative to the HTML file that contains the <applet> tag.  This file is specified on the Build Applet tab.

See also URL Syntax for more information.

T-Frame:

This is the name of the target frame where the Link URL will be displayed.  A typical application would be to have a navigation applet or flash file in one frame, and content displayed in another frame.

Note: The frame name corresponds to frame name specified in the <frameset> tag.  Some WYSIWYG HTML editors (such as Microsoft FrontPage) may automatically generate a frame name for you.  You should open the frame properties to set the frame name.

You can specify more than one frame per button.  Multiple URLs should be separated by commas and a space.

In the example above, if you specified the frames frame1, frame2 the Microsoft home page will be displayed in frame1, and the Netscape home page will be displayed in frame2.

Status:

Specifies the text to be displayed in the browser's status line when the mouse cursor is over the button.